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1
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What is monotropy?

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A unique and close attachment to one person - the primary attachment figure.

2
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What is institutionalisation?

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The effects of growing up in an institution, such as a children’s home or orphanage.

3
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What is insecure resistant attachment?

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Attachment classification in Strange Situation, where a child shows high stranger and separation anxiety and resists comfort at reunion.

4
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What is interactional synchrony?

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Infant and caregiver reflect each other’s actions and emotions in a coordinated manner.

5
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What is imprinting?

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Where offspring follow the first large-moving object they see.

6
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What is the maternal deprivation hypothesis?

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Separation from the mother figure in early childhood has serious consequences.

7
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What is the evolutionary explanation?

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Explanation for behaviours such as attachment that views it as increasing survival chances (Bowlby).

8
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What is indiscriminate attachment?

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Infants aged 2-7 months can discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar people but do not show stranger anxiety.

9
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What is the continuity hypothesis?

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The idea that early relationships with caregivers predict later relationships in adulthood.

10
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What is contact comfort?

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The physical and emotional comfort that an infant receives from being close to its mother.

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What is insecure avoidant attachment?

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Attachment classification in strange situation where child shows low stranger and separation anxiety and little response to reunion.

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What is the learning theory?

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Explanations that emphasise the role of learning in acquiring behaviours such as attachment.

13
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What is innate behaviour?

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A behaviour that is instinctive and does not need to be learned.

14
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What is affectionless psychopathy?

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A term used by Bowlby to describe people who don’t show concern or affection for other people and show little to no remorse or guilt.

15
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What is the asocial stage?

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Stage 0-6 weeks where infant may respond to faces or voices but an attachment has not been formed.

16
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What is attachment?

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Two-way enduring emotional tie to another person.

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What is the critical period?

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A time period where an attachment has to form or it never will.

18
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What is disinhibited attachment?

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Child shows equal affection to strangers as they do people they know well.

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What is the internal working model?

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Mental representation of our relationship with our primary caregiver that becomes a template for future relationships.

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